Improvement in suspender-buckles



A. HOUSE.

Suspender-Buckles.

Patented Feb. !0,1874.

u NITED STATES HENRY A. HOUSE, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN SUSPENDER-BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,325, dated February 10, 1874 application filed I November 20, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY A. HOUSE, of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Suspending-Clasp for Connecting Suspenders with Pantaloons, Drawers, and other similar articles of wearing apparel; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making part of this specification, in whieh Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing the straps of a suspender attached, by in yimproved clasp, to the waistband of a pair of pants. Fig. 2 is a perspective back view of the clasp. Fig. 3 is a section taken verticallythrough the clasp, showing also in section the bands of the pants and drawers held by said clasp.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in the several figures.

The object of this invention is to provide a suspender-clasp which will clamp the band of the pants, or, if desired, the bands of the pants and drawers, as will be hereinafter explained, and which may be attached by a hook to the straps of the suspenders.

The following description of my invention will enable others skilled in the art to understand it.

In the accompanying drawings I have represented merely for illustration a suspender, A, which is connected to straps B B, by means of a clasp, C. The straps B B may have the usual button-holes, or eyelets may be inserted in them for the purpose of receiving the hooks E of my improved clasps. Each hook E will be permanently attached to an eye, a, formed on the clasp-plate D. This clasp-plate D may be stamped out of a single piece of metal, and it is bent in the form of the letter U, with an opening, 9, and with two curved portions, 1) b, the ends of which latter are turned so as to form hinging-eyes e e. To these eyes I attach a clamp, G, which is an open frame stamped out of a singlepiece and bent so as to form a clamping portion or tongue, a pintle,and a handle or lever, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

I thus construct the clasp of these parts, to

'wit: A hooking portion, E, which might be formed on the clasp-plate D, and a hinged alone, it is only necessary to introduce the edge of the waistband between the short and long portions of the claspplate, and then to force the clamp into position shown in full lines, Fig.

If desirable, the biting-edge of the clamp Gr may be serrated, or it may have a tongue formed on it opposite the opening g, for the purpose of forcing the material which it is holding into the opening g, as shown in Fig. 3.

The advantages of my improvement are obvious for instance, it renders unnecessary the use of suspender-buttons on the waistband or loops on the drawers, and also admits of the use of eyelets, metallic, or stitched on the straps of the suspenders. To detach the clasp, press down the handle of the clamp G to the position indicated by dotted lines, Fig. 3.

Having described my invention, whatl claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Iat ent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture the suspendingclasp herein shown, made, out of two pices of metal, constructed or shaped and pivoted together, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The hook E attached to the upper part of the piece D of the suspending-clasp D G, as and for the purpose herein described.

HENRY A. HOUSE. I'Vitnesses O. H. Bnnus, ALFRED B. Bnnns. 

